August 12, 2013

Dick Cheney Will Bring The Pain!

Yeah, this is going to work out just fine, provided we can find a “joint” that will waive all insurance considerations. Maybe the SwiftMart parking lot?

Okay Gil, go ahead and bring everyone up to speed on your totally whacked out “plan”. I really love how Gil and Kaz pump iron while Gil shares his latest completely nonsensical plan to “help” people with their problems. It’s kind of like all those deep philosophical discussions that Ponch and Jon used to have on CHiPs while they roared down the freeway on their police motorcycles.

Here’s a prior episode of lifting exposition:

Hey readers, I sorta looked (but not that hard) to find other Gil and Kaz working out exposition and only came up with one. If you spot others (either in TWIM archives or in that other place), let me know in the comments and I’ll add them to the post.

For a second I thought the prior lifting exposition strip was part of the current story line, and that Gil was bringing Doyle Dane in to promote the match. I actually think that could work in this story.

#4 billy, yeah, come to think of it, sticking in an older strip is a bit jarring, but I wanted to mix things up a bit and not just post a link so the images can be compared. Maybe there’s a framing device I can come up with to signify looking back in time, like those little photo corner thingamjigs that Funky Winkerbean uses to look back with nostalgia on date rapes and bully beatdowns.

But now that you mention it, why not bring in Doyle Dane to prepare the proper exploitation.

In fact, it would be sweet if we learned that all this time Herk and Hairy were con artists, roaming small Michigan towns, feigning Alzheimers, bilking small business owners out of free subs, just for the thrill of the chase.

Oh man, the story of how Bob got to be an assistant coach for Milford is just so good. The long string of loser applicants Gil had to interview (Have you ever asked an interviewer ‘You don’t test for drugs, do you?’), Gil being impressed when Bob – as ump! – roughed up some belligerent softball team/dojo guys straight out of Karate Kid… then, the transition to Von squiring Kelly only to then sub in Bob because Von was after all only in high school. Et cetera, et cetera. Crazy days indeed.

FWIW, I am totally going to steal the ‘drugs’ guy’s look on my next interview.